He also got the necessary Xen patches committed into Xen's unstable branch,
so that from Xen's 4.0 release on you'll be able to boot GNU/Hurd systems
using pv-grub, without the need to prepare a special bootstrap image (like
an initrd).

The DDE port of Zheng Da now passes the first
tests,
bringing us the first steps towards updated device drivers -- and much lower
overhead for maintaining them.

Now that the Debian GNU/Hurd build stats are again hosted on the master
Debian build machine, Debian developers
see their packages' build failures more prominently, and quite a few started
to fix their packages.

Thus, thanks to the porting work of mainly Emilio Pozuelo
Monfort and Pino Toscano, users of the Hurd can get many more packages
directly via the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution.
Thanks to their and the other porters' relentless work, the percentage of
available Debian packages has reached
66%, rising. For a specific example,
they ported many GNOME packages, so that the gnome-core metapackage is
installable
again.
Please test these and report back.

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